Many of our streets have been buried in paper and plastic waste in the past week. Barges bound for the mainland are filled to the brim with bushels of scrap newspapers and cardboard with nowhere to go.
They have been the result of an industrial action, now called off, led by the recycling trade. If this is not a wake-up call, I don’t know what is.
Yet, we can’t blame the trade or the new mainland ban on the import of unsorted and unprocessed waste from the end of this year.
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